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Decoding the IEA’s Scenario Spin: Real reform or more of the same?

When it comes to the urgent need for a robust, central, 1.5°C-aligned energy scenario that doesn’t gamble our future on unproven technologies, the IEA unfortunately presents far more spin than substance.

Denmark could be close to phasing out oil and gas extraction. Here’s why it would matter.

Last week we released a report outlining why Denmark can’t be a climate leader if it expands North Sea oil and gas production as planned.

The IEA’s Hidden Negative Emissions Gamble

For the IEA, real scenario reform will require more than risky emissions accounting tricks that punt the burden and costs of reducing emissions to future generations.

The IEA’s plan to increase gas consumption locks in climate chaos

The second in a series of blogs on the IEA's 2019 report on the role of gas in energy transitions. This part explores the climate risks inherent in the report's main policy prescription.

IEA cedes ground on the failure of gas as a bridge fuel. Then bends over backwards to push for more gas use.

The IEA latest report on gas all but makes the case against gas as a "bridge fuel". But still finds a way to push for more of the controversial fuel.

‘Science is not negotiable’: The Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Must Start Now

Affirming that “science is not negotiable” in the halls of a UN conference center and acting on that fact in one’s own policy decisions can be two different things. What counts for the climate is action to manage a rapid and just transition off of fossil fuels.

A managed decline of oil and gas production in California?

Hidden in a detailed California budget document released last week was a critical sentence that, if pursued, could mark a major shift in California climate policy.

IEA defends its energy forecasts which ‘steer world towards massive fossil fuel growth’

Last week, some 50 leading scientists, NGOs, investors, politicians and energy experts wrote to the International Energy Agency (IEA) to criticise the world’s top energy body for not aligning its energy forecasts with the latest climate science.

Devastation wrought by Cyclone Idai is “yet another wake-up call” on climate change

A large swathe of Southern Africa remains underwater a week after Hurricane Idai ripped through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe in what is being seen as one of the Southern hemisphere’s worst disasters.

Standing in Solidarity with the Global #SchoolStrike4Climate

Tomorrow, in some hundred countries, in over one thousand cities, young people from around the world will walk out of their schools and colleges in the tens of thousands and join the first ever global School Strike for Climate.